**The Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has told the BBC that he believes Iran has no intention of developing nuclear weapons.**Mr Erdogan said he was confident Iran’s nuclear programme was for civilian purposes only and described President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a “friend”.
“I told him I don’t want to see nuclear weapons in the region,” he added.
Meanwhile, a top US general has said intelligence suggests Iran will not be able to build a nuclear bomb this year.
Gen David Petraeus, the head of US Central Command, said Tehran’s weapon development programme appeared to have suffered delays.
“It has, thankfully, slid to the right a bit and it is not this calendar year, I don’t think,” he told a Senate committee hearing, according to the Reuters news agency.